[LUCENE-4813] Allow DirectSpellchecker to use totalTermFrequency rather than docFrequency

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 4.1
• Fix Version/s: 4.9, 6.0
• Component/s: modules/spellchecker
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Simon Willnauer
• Created: 06/Mar/13 17:17
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:40

Description

we have a bunch of new statistics in on our term dictionaries that we should make use of where it makes sense. For DirectSpellChecker totalTermFreq and sumTotalTermFreq might be better suited for spell correction on top of a fulltext index than docFreq and maxDoc